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With feh, you can run a specific command for any keypress (actually 0-9) while viewing the image. Using this command, associate file metadata using setfattr. If you need user input, open a dialog box from this command which in turn will be stored as metadata. Advantages:

1. No dependency on any new-fangled databases.
2. Metadata is independent of image codec/container/technology etc. Supports most popular formats - png, jpg, gif etc.

bind pager <up> previous-line
bind pager <down> next-line
bind pager <left> exit
bind pager <right> view-attachments
bind attach <left> exit
bind attach <right> view-attach
bind index <right> display-message
macro index <left> "<sync-mailbox><change-folder>?<toggle-mailboxes>"
bind browser <right> select-entry
bind browser <left> exit

Ok. If you want something specifically for managing photos then wouldn't it make sense to use something designed for that task. Of course a simple CLI isn't going to help when you need to view images as you manage them, so use something like GQview[1] or (my personal favourite) feh[2].

The right tool for the job.

[1] http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/wiki

My vote goes for camE - command line only, but it comes with some pre-canned config files that make it easy to set up. It can do timestamps, pretty antialiased/alpha-blended text, keep an archived copy of each image - and it talks scp as well as ftp for somewhat more secure uploading.

For hardware, I've had good luck with the Philips/pwc cameras (there was a time when they were only supported by a binary module, but the free replacement now works well enough for webcam use).

It's not too uncommon to see things like the RSA SecurID fob in the DC area - it's just a pseudo-random number generator, that has a counterpart on the server's side (software with the same algorithm and the same seed to start with). Every couple hundred of seconds it cycles to the next number on it's list, so when you log in, you type in your password, and the number on your fob, which then has to match the server's number.

Have you tried Feh. It's extremely simple to use with it's rightclick-menu. And it doesn't have any toolbar wasting screen-estate, which annoys me personally in many imageviewers.

After writing the parent post, I decided to see how bad the effects of the image were. Not only did the image viewer (feh) lock up, so did X, and I was unable to do ctrl-alt-f1 (although I was able to move my mouse cursor). My remedy involved logging in via my Sony Clie and killing X (the KILL signal was required). This worked, but my virtual consoles were left in an unusable state, with 1 and 2 pixel wide vertical stripes of white, separated by 1 pixel wide stripes of black.

I'm not familiar with either of those image viewers but I recommend feh. It's commandline-driven, though.

Pornview might be more to your taste.

"Slideshows allow for unattended presentation of images for hands-free viewing."

Heh.

Both of these are packaged in Debian.

let me scroll through my images without loading a "playlist" first.

I present you with feh. I'm nearing the end of the process of finding Linux equivalents of all the Windows programs I used to use regularly. I was mourning the loss of Irfanview as my image view until I found feh. It's 95% as good as Irfanview[1], which makes it a damn sight better than other open source offerings.

Feh is used from the command line. If you had a folder (for this example "img004") that had some images in it, you'd type "feh img004/*" to open the viewer. The "v" key toggles full screen, and spacebar/backspace traverse the folder images. It can do some other really neat stuff, too.

[1] Irfanview is far and away the best image viewer for Windows. Feh can't open tiff images and it doesn't have some of the configurability that Irfanview has (which isn't suprising, as Irfanview is very configurable).

feh
gtk-gnutella
lopster
dc_gui w/ dctc
mtr
gkrellm (Not sure how well this would work...do OS X systems have a compatible /proc?)
xmms

1. it is difficult to setup
2. fetchmail SUCKS at IMAP and mutt SUCKS even more at it. IMAP is the way to check my inbox
3. SCREW list traffic. It sucks. It really sucks when you use mutt and IMAP alone. Pine does a much better job of this with its own inbuilt filters. However, I admit, I am using slrn and newsgroups more...

I think giblet is abusing his moderation points!. ...waiting 20 seconds so i can post again.

They're my buddies. Sometimes I chill with ol' Billy and drinking tea and eating crumpets. Last time I was there he said something about giblet being a loser.

Feh.